New York State has officially started to construct a new Terminal 6 at JFK airport.
Over $4 Billion for a small International terminal with just 10 gates? That terminal had better include an
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Specifically, Samuel Stein has questions, and his piece in The Baffler is a
High speed rail is not coming to the US in any sustained system, except perhaps in California.
Why? The USA missed its chance after World War II, when it had the capital and
New York City's bridges are falling apart. It would cost over $20 Billion to reapir them.
New York City's rails, from the state owned subway and commuter rail to
Bridges. Airports. Highways. Tunnels. We Americans have a terrible habit of naming our infrastructure (what little we have) after people. Why?
When John Roebling designed a mile-long suspension bridge to connect Manhattan to